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Officials in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Saturday morning identified the 12 victims who died in the shooting in the city’s municipal building on Friday afternoon. The victims were identified as Laquita Brown, Mary Louise Gayle, Alexander Mikhail Gusev, Katherine Nixon, Richard Nettleton, Christopher Kelly Rapp, Ryan Keith Cox, Joshua Hardy, Michelle “Missy” Langer, Robert “Bobby” Williams and Herbert “Bert” Snelling. All but one of the victims were city employees who worked in the public works department. Snelling was a contractor. “We want you to know who they were so in the days and weeks t

MORE. Mueller for two years avoided the spotlight while running one of the most politically charged investigations in history. On Wednesday, he suddenly appeared on Americans’ television screens — speaking tersely and carefully about the findings of his investigation.

Republicans are targeting former FBI Director MORE launched in the Obama administration. The effort to spotlight the intelligence officials comes as Democratic calls to impeach President Trump rise in the wake of special counsel MORE’s first public remarks about his investigation. The White House says the real controversy is the investigation of Trump that preceded Mueller's probe, an argument Democrats contend is just a conspiracy theory peddled in order to distract from his presidential woes. Trump and GOP lawmakers are seeking to pin blame

Speaking before delegates in San Fransisco, Hickenlooper said that Democrats would be painted as far-left extremists operating outside the ideological norms of U.S.

He began by noting his recent stop in Charleston, South Carolina, mentioning his proximity to the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. “You may all remember that about four years ago, Dylann Roof walked into Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church, and he murdered nine people while they were worshipping,” Castro said.

“Bill Barr on CBS offers no facts. An AG should not be echoing conspiracy theories. He should gather facts and show them. That is what Justice is about,” Comey wrote in a tweet on Saturday afternoon, failing to elaborate on what Barr purportedly amplified that was conspiratorial. https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1134875292332376067 In an interview with CBS This Morning, Barr discussed special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into now-debunked collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.

On May 24, McAleenan had lunch at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., with Tapper for an exclusive, off-the-record meeting, Breitbart News confirmed with two sources close to the administration. Breitbart News first reached out to DHS officials for comment on May 30 after learning of the private meeting.

ATLANTA (AP) — The Democratic National Committee is upping the ante for its second round of presidential primary debates, doubling the polling and grassroots fundraising requirements from its initial summer debates. The parameters, announced Wednesday, are likely to help cull a crop of 24 candidates and, in the process, intensify scrutiny on Democratic Chairman Tom Perez and his pledge to give all candidates a chance to be heard . The DNC’s outline for its September debate — the third of at least a dozen promised matchups during the 2020 nominating fight — decre

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump warned Wednesday the ‘‘consequences will be devastating’’ if Alabama Republican Roy Moore, whose 2017 U.S. Senate campaign was battered by allegations of long-ago sexual harassment of teenagers, seeks the seat again in 2020. Moore lost in the once-reliably red state in a 2017 special election amid the sexual misconduct allegations , which he denied.

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller said Wednesday that charging President Trump with a crime was ‘‘not an option’’ because of federal rules, but he used his first public remarks on the Russia investigation to emphasize that he did not exonerate the president. ‘‘If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so,’’ Mueller declared. The special counsel’s remarks stood as a pointed rebuttal to Trump’s repeated claims that he was cleared and that the two-year inquiry was merely a ‘‘witch hunt.’’ They also mark